Attorney William Pepper's letter sent to US Dept. of Commerce on behalf of AE 911 Truth regarding Building 7. We're, of course suspicious of the 'truth' movement but it's worth a look. Pepper did represent the family of Martin Luther King in their victorious wrongful death civil suit against the government.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

The press conference where HIV was announced as the "probable cause" of AIDS.

A synopsis of the announcement and what happens next, taken from the comments section of the video::

On
April 23, 1984, Gallo called an international press conference in
conjunction with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
He used this forum to announce his discovery of a new retrovirus
described as "the probable cause of AIDS." Although Gallo presented no
evidence to support his tentative assumption, the HHS immediately
characterized it as "another miracle of American medicine...the triumph
of science over a dreaded disease."

Later that same day, Gallo
filed a patent for the antibody test now known as the "AIDS test." By
the following day, The New York Times had turned Gallo's proposal into a
certainty with front page news of "the virus that causes AIDS," and all
funding for research into other possible causes of AIDS came to an
abrupt halt.

By announcing his hypothesis to the media without
providing substantiating data, Gallo violated a fundamental rule of the
scientific process. Researchers must first publish evidence for a
hypothesis in a medical or scientific journal, and document the research
or experiments that were used to construct it. Experts then examine and
debate the hypothesis, and attempt to duplicate the original
experiments to confirm or refute the original findings. Any new
hypothesis must stand up to the scrutiny of peer review and must be
verified by successful experiments before it can be considered a
reasonable theory.

In the case of HIV, Gallo announced an
unconfirmed hypothesis to the media who reported his idea as if it were
an established fact, inciting government officials to launch new public
health policies based on the unsubstantiated notion of an AIDS virus.
Some attribute these violations of the scientific process to the
atmosphere of terror and desperation that surrounded the notion of an
infectious epidemic.

The data Gallo used to construct his
HIV/AIDS hypothesis were published several days after his announcement.
Rather than supporting his hypothesis, this paper revealed that Gallo
was unable to find HIV (actual virus) in more than half of the AIDS
patients in his study. While he was able to detect antibodies in most,
antibodies alone are not an indication of current infection and are
actually an indication of immunity from infection.

His paper also
failed to provide a credible explanation as to how a retrovirus could
cause AIDS. Gallo suggested that HIV worked by destroying immune cells,
but 70 years of medical research had shown that retroviruses are unable
to kill cells, and he offered no proof that HIV differed from other
harmless retroviruses. In fact, all evidence to date conclusively
demonstrates that HIV -- like all retroviruses -- is not cytotoxic.

The
focus of questions about HIV quickly shifted from how it could cause
AIDS to who found the now valuable viral commodity after Dr. Luc
Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in France accused Gallo of stealing
his HIV sample. A congressional investigation determined that Gallo had
presented fraudulent data in his original paper on HIV, and that the
virus he claimed to have discovered had been sent to him by Montagnier.
Negotiations were conducted between the French and American governments
to establish discovery and patent rights. These ended in a compromise,
with Montagnier and Gallo sharing credit as the codiscoverers of HIV
and ownership rights to the HIV test. Montagnier has since stated that
he does not believe HIV alone is capable of causing AIDS.

Since
1984, more than 100,000 papers have been published on HIV. None of these
papers, singly or collectively, has been able to reasonably demonstrate
or effectively prove that HIV causes AIDS. Although Gallo claimed that
HIV caused AIDS by destroying the T cells of the immune system, 20 years
of cancer research confirmed that retroviruses are not cytotoxic. In
fact, there is still no evidence in the scientific literature
demonstrating that HIV is able to destroy T cells, directly or
indirectly.

HIV is the only virus that is said to cause a group
of diseases caused by other viruses and bacteria rather than causing its
own disease. AIDS experts also say that HIV is able to cause cell
depletion -- loss of immune cells -- at the same time it causes cell
proliferation or cancer.

Although more research money has been
spent on HIV than on the combined total of all other viruses studied in
medical history, there is no scientific evidence validating the
hypothesis that HIV is the cause of AIDS, or that AIDS has a viral
cause. A good hypothesis is defined by its ability to solve problems and
mysteries, make accurate predictions and produce results. The HIV
hypothesis has failed to meet any of these criteria.

Hundreds of scientists around the world are now requesting an official reevaluation of the HIV hypothesis﻿.